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By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 23 Aug 2016

In the end, Tanne has given us a movie that is warm and watchable without overdoing it…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 22 Aug 2016

Tanne has crafted a winning film of smart, probing conversation that plays like an affectionate going away gift to the Obamas…

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By April Wolfe (199) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 22 Aug 2016

Both actors occasionally hit stumbling blocks with the wordy script and Tanne's direction, neither of which allows quite enough room for the…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Aug 2016

The film may not announce itself as hagiography, but it’s hero-worshipful to its core…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 21 Aug 2016

This plausible account of the blossoming of love between Barack and Michelle serves up a pleasant, if sanitized version of their romantic launch…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 21 Aug 2016

It's the pleasant movie we deserve after a needlessly contentious eight years…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 21 Aug 2016

Southside with You, running a brisk hour and twenty minutes, is a fully realized, intricately imagined, warmhearted, sharp-witted, and perceptive…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 Aug 2016

Southside with You is a sweet, intelligent, well-crafted, wonderfully romantic, no-frills re-imagination of the first date between Barack Obama…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 15 Aug 2016

What makes Southside With You work so beautifully is that it could be a romantic comedy about two strangers, but because the characters are…

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By Adam Chitwood (59) for Collider (1,032) on 23 Feb 2016

If you remove the historic importance of these two characters, Southside with You still mostly works as a simple love story between a pair…

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By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 Feb 2016

Most nuanced and effective in the feeling of getting to know someone the first time, when the evident foretelling is put to the side, this…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 02 Feb 2016

While a bit too enamored of the foreshadowing built into its premise, Tanne's impeccably acted two-hander examines the Obamas through an infectious,…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 02 Feb 2016

Airy and pleasant, a modest film that gets by on charm and aesthetics…

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By Crystal Bell (1) for MTV (492) on 02 Feb 2016

It's a lovely film about two charismatic people walking, talking and slowing falling in love over ice cream…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 02 Feb 2016

That's what makes Southside With You work, because it just boils down to two people trying to figure out life and each other…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 31 Jan 2016

The result makes you realize how few realistic and three-dimensional date movies have been made in an era of throbbing hook-up encounters and…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Jan 2016

Richard Tanne’s writing-directing debut deepens into a pointed, flowing conversation about the many challenges (and varieties) of African-American…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Jan 2016

The movie holds to a steady but too-straight rhythm, hitting all the expected romantic-drama beats, right down to the occasional argument that…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 31 Jan 2016

Though sometimes achingly on-the-nose in its attempts to foreshadow these characters’ destiny, Southside With You radiates enough wistful…

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By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 31 Jan 2016

On some level, this enterprise was doomed from conception…

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